disbranch

verb

1. (transitive)To remove a branch or branches.

   “There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove. Mr. Evelyn says, he has removed them twice as big as a man's waist ; but then they were totally disbranched, the top being left only intire […]”

   “You have to disbud and disbranch your plants to get one bloom that is anywhere close to perfection.”

2. (intransitive)To tear away; to break off.

   “She that herself will sliver and disbranch From her material sap, perforce must wither, And come to deadly use.”